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Oct 14, 2009

The circus is in town

The Ringling Brothers circus is in town for their annual show. While I’ve never actually attended the circus, I always know they’re here.

The circus transports all of their equipment and animals up from New York via train. The train pulled into Cambridge a few days ago and they parked it on a track right near MIT. Now, if you were the circus management, how would you get all those animals from Cambridge, across the river, and to the Boston Garden*?

You walk them. Naturally.

Here’s a YouTube clip from a few years ago.

Elephants on Memorial Drive

Last night was the annual elephant parade. Around 7 pm I found myself out on Mass Ave as elephants and horses passed. The circus staff was walking with them - elephants need supervision - and handing out clown noses. So now I have a Halloween costume too.

* Yes, yes, it’s no longer the “Boston Garden” technically, but it’s gone through so many names that I have no clue what to call it. I’m reverting back to the original.

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2 Responses To This Entry:

    This is one of the quirkiest MIT things ever! I always kind of wondered what goes on over there in that train, but after reading Water for Elephants, maybe I don’t want to know!

    Posted by: Janet on October 14th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    thanks for posting this nicole! i missed it by a couple minutes!

    Posted by: joy on October 16th, 2009 at 10:17 am

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